SPRG Seminars
February 2, 2010:
" Flare waves and the impulsive phase "
Hugh Hudson, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory
A solar flare requires large-scale mass motions in order to extract energy from the coronal magnetic field. Global waves in the corona and in the solar interior result from this process. I discuss the behavior of the lower solar atmosphere during the impulsive phase of a flare, emphasizing the possible relationships between the large scales of these global waves and the small scales of the observed energy release in the white-light flares and hard X-ray sources.